Speakes Says Congress Has Next Budget Move

WASHINGTON — The White House Monday tried to shift budget responsibility to Congress, saying President Reagan would not step into the House-Senate impasse over next year's spending.

One day after Senate GOP leader Robert Dole called on Reagan to ''step into the breach'' of the budget battle, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said: ''This is a matter for Congress. The White House has been with them every step of the way and it's up to them.''

But Speakes said Reagan, recovering from cancer surgery he had nine days ago, expects to meet with congressional leaders later this week and may seek to break the 6-week-old logjam by calling members of Congress.

Told of the White House comments, Dole was restrained: ''I didn't know Speakes had gotten into it,'' he said.

Dole said the Senate budget negotiators are working on a counter offer to present to the House side. The talks broke off last week when Senate negotiators rejected a House proposal that House leaders said went a long way toward meeting Senate demands of more spending cuts.

But the Senate bargainers want more reductions to make up for a freeze on Social Security, a money-saving item originally included in the Senate's budget but recently rejected by Reagan and House leaders.

House Budget Committee Chairman William Gray said the House made ''significant movement'' with its last offer, but ''there has not been a willingness or flexibility on the part of the Senate to meet halfway.''

Gray, D-Pa., said it ''will be a very negative thing if we don't get a budget.''

Earlier, Dole told the National Urban League that if no budget is agreed on ''we're in economic trouble . . . by 1988.''

Dole, R-Kan., said that by ''economic trouble'' he meant ''fewer jobs, higher inflation and higher interest.''

Dole also said the national debt ceiling, now at $1.8 trillion, will have to be raised again by September or October because the government will run out of borrowing authority, an event he said would bring a ''big, big explosion in this town.''